January 28, 2007

Here's how complicated things can get here in The Land of Steady Habits.

A white woman claims she was raped by a 300-pound black man in our popular park in downtown Hartford during the evening rush hour. The cops start looking for the perp while the alarmed city hunkers down.

Then the woman says she wasn't raped in the park and it wasn't a black man, but that she was raped by someone else in another part of the state. The cops at first didn't release her name to protect her, as they do all rape victims.

Meanwhile, the black community goes ballistic at the racism of the white woman's original charge and demands that the woman be arrested for making a false rape complaint.

The cops do just that and now the advocates for rape victims are mad at the cops because they say women already have a hard time being believed when they report they've been raped and this will discourage real victims from coming forward.

I don't know what the penalty is for filing a false rape charge, but part of it should be that a false accuser has to spend a period of time working with rape victims.

Maybe those women who are lying about being raped will understand the gravity of their false charge if they have to help and see close up the trauma of women who have actually been raped.

Meanwhile, the cops are caught in the middle for doing their job as they understand it.

Some people see a racist fearmonger in the false accuser. I don't know what's in her heart, but I definitely see a woman who should be sentenced to working weekends at Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services.

1 Comments

True that! That woman and the 16 year old girl who also falsely cried rape do not know how far they set legitimate rape victims back. Before, it was more common than not to believe a rape victim at their word, and now every rape victim will be under the microscope and doubted. The rape victims advocacy groups should not blame the cops for making it harder for the victims to come forward, but they should instead be lambasting the two who made false claims!